When is it summer in tokyo
(How to) Survive Tokyo’s Summer Heat in the Coolest Place — Shinjuku?
[Applause]
welcome to Shinjuku Station this is the
higashi-kurume station so you don't see
a little heart print of sweat on my
chest it's so hot that if you go outside
you start looking like a prune so hot
that whatever you you drank five seconds
ago ends up all over your body in the
form of puddles it's really really
sticky really hot and that's a Tokyo
summer Tokyo summer although the
thermometer may say something like you
know 35 degrees Celsius and everybody in
the Sahara and Arizona is just laughing
and going we've got 105 degrees
Fahrenheit
well I'll tell you what mr. and Miss
Arizona you got nothing on Tokyo because
this place is a sauna and there's a
difference between you know a dry heat
and heat that just soaks your energy and
then school squashes it like this and
that's where we are
and it helped me decipher this all is
Peter a man who needs very little
introduction welcome to the hottest
place on earth it's hot proof yeah but
what is it what is the temperature by
the way oh my gosh what are we even
alive I don't know it's uh nice I don't
want to go to heaven if you stand next
to me that means you gotta trapped me
with you it's like oh it says 40 degrees
Celsius so that's over a hundred okay
it's hot it's very hot and but it feels
like this is not a feels like
thermometer if it was it feels like the
mom would be like what 50 or something
it feels like a hundred amia it's hot
it's hot and in Shinjuku
it's especially hot because we're
surrounded by concrete so it's concrete
everywhere like the streets just they
absorb the heat they radiate the heat
and it stays hot all day long it's like
a frying pan yeah so JD here's got an
idea a cheap way to stay cool was it my
I think was your idea
are you right he has an idea that's oh
my are you just gave it to me a cheap
way to stay cool and Peter is going to
take us on a tour of this shortcut or
shall we say hack staying cool now you
could go to a pool there are other
places that probably are cooler but
there's nothing figuratively speaking
that could be cooler than we're going to
show you today right let's go let's go
so Shinjuku happens to be one of the
most crowded places on earth but not on
this side and not on this day right
there's the Silver Line making its way
into the station so that's proof we are
here now Peter knows a lot of shortcuts
like trees which are very few of in the
city but you can also you know find
shadows of buildings and stay on the
proper side of the road that's also
another shortcut but that's not what
you're gonna show us so backing up a
little bit I my my beginnings in Japan
or in Shinjuku I used to work here it's
down the street and was here today sanal
yeah yeah I was here six days a week and
a lot of pretty incredible things have
taken place for me and it seems you
could so in the summer time it's
especially hot here however when you
walk down this main Boulevard which
we're gonna show you it looks a lot
different during the daytime it doesn't
have all the lights lit up which we're
all used to for the night scene of
scenes you could right however there's a
ton of luxurious department stores with
the AC cranked way up oh yeah it's so
cranked that it spills in the streets so
that makes Shinjuku the coolest place in
Tokyo gonna watch this thermometer drop
as we walk down the street is it really
gonna drop because that looks like one
of those thermometers right you have to
stay there for five minutes no well
you're gonna stay here for five minutes
I'm not staying anywhere for five
minutes
what are you talking about well being
half India and my body is somewhat you
know used to taking the heat both in
terms of spice and temperature if you
know the temperatures in New Delhi it
gets up there to like 50 degrees Celsius
with plus plus pollution plus pollution
so it just sort of you know it stays
more like that the the temperatures
stayed trapped into into the all around
the city it's pretty hot in Delhi but
Tokyo is pretty hot too we used to have
pollution here as well or the Delhi's
air conditioned in Delhi I don't think
they have delis in Delhi you know no all
right so what you see here on the on the
right side is bit camera and on the left
side is ABC Mart and this is going
toward shinjuku-sanchome M which is
famous for having tons of department
stores and it's a very short walk it's
about five minutes so this alley down
here that you could see will lake leads
you towards kabukicho which is where all
the nightlife is but for this dream
we're gonna walk down the shopping area
I'm already dripping sweat due to
and Alby the department store is open at
10:30 in Shinjuku so what time is it now
it's 10:35 Oh
so we we should start to feel some air
conditioning I hope very soon
behind me ah I can feel it
they either they leave the door open
it's the cool down the city yeah that's
trails fantastic look at this it's bad
you said it it's fantastic
check out that air conditioner right in
the right in the door that's one of
those industrial oh dude dude stand here
stay in here okay look at the
temperature right now has a cool dogs
too it's thirty about thirty nine right
now I've gone down at once degree this
is so cool I think it's gonna get cooler
we're actually we're actually shopping
is this stealing if we're standing and
and borrowing their AC is this actually
stealing I do have AC in my house it's
not as powerful or as high because I had
to pay for it so in a way this could be
putting an object on layaway one day I
will buy from ABC Mart I always do it
Peter
any-any dropping this dropping it is
dropping one degree one degree so at 38
and I'm liking that there's a there's a
lot of things dropping including the
price yeah there used to be eight
thousand yen that price dropped by 30%
yeah you are happy
we're feeling happy until it's at 37 now
37 all right that's a good three root
three degrees drop here so I think this
thermometer might not get the drop right
away we should have got one of those
lasers you know you point the laser well
there we are near big camera hey solo
here's the place that keeps Chloe Guetta
a caramel macchiato in one of those
Frappuccino type things that'll cool you
down that's a new one I don't remember
to look at the IO there's a three oh wow
I didn't know compartments I didn't know
that building existed yeah that looks so
cool yeah but I'm still hot that's that
that's the wrong kind of cool all right
we gotta close to the big department
stores all right green light blue light
and maybe we should coffee see cookie
said tom is just up here again let's
check the Bigfoot all a big crow so
across the street as you can see big
cutter which is a massive electronic
store combined with the unique low
clothing store and they've created big
clove big camera Uniqlo big claw get it
okay I guess they get it you don't Peter
doesn't get it I don't know I don't know
but I get a feeling that they've got a
good feeling inside yeah what do you
laugh at that I can't do this is live we
got to come up with material right up
right up right off like this you need to
go back to your 39 now I put it this way
so we can see it great okay all right
there you go
it only says sell just whatever
Americans supposed to do like us because
we are American
[Music]
so I put it like this zero equals 32 and
then for every 5 degrees Celsius is 9
degrees Fahrenheit so 5 is 41 10 is 50
15 is 59 20 is what 6 wait Matt Hart
I don't know it's just it's so hot I've
started to feel it
yeah we're now under the influence of
this 40 40 40 okay what 40 I'm being
pulled in this department stirs tractor
beam yes the tractor beam is feels good
it feels cool wait let it let it ferment
let it ferment oh you feel it you feel
it I'll let it ferment just just let it
fester a little bit stand outside
ah man it literally it's it's completely
dropped the temperature I'm not going in
the store but I'm going to stand here
and borrow their air-conditioning the
temperature has dropped literally it's
at least spring time see it's no longer
summer it's now spring time it's a huge
one
it's so big they have been really
massive sized industrial air
conditioners aha the stream is coming
this way my plane is here everybody's
been watching for 10 minutes and going
what are these guys doing
Tokyo is super hot and you can't see the
sweat I can start to see the sweat marks
in your shirt dude you even with them
even with the white it's starting to
come through and I got beads of sweat on
my forehead we haven't been anywhere
this really can be like air conditioning
of surfing aircon surfing in Tokyo so to
encourage make it says take your hats
off it's still it's still hot it's just
a little bit cooler what they do in the
baseball the 1928 these hats are warm
when I went to Cooperstown and saw in
the Hall of Fame they're made out of
wool in the 21st century amazing babe
you should have been a much better shape
shape sweating it out back then but you
really like hot dogs all right look this
is the standard model oh these are the
corona that's a cheaper brand but these
air conditioners this is a typical air
conditioner in the Japanese house we
don't have central air conditioning we
don't have central a/c but what we they
mount them on the wall with with a pipe
going outside to the actual machine and
pumps into the end of the house escaping
through all the cracks and
and eventually your house is becomes a
sweat pit and then after a couple of
weeks you get the first electricity bill
and you decide to turn off the air
conditioner and and just sweat it out
yeah if you wanted hotter go stand in
the Sun that's sort of hey my my dad
would never turn on the heat when I was
a kid he he'd have very strong control
over the thermostat and if we were cold
he would say to put on a sweater and if
we were hot and he would say go take a
cold shower I don't think that was funny
when you're a kid that's not funny at
all it's very you know it changed my
life I am Who I am because of that what
Mitch your dad at your wedding yeah he's
kind of a no-nonsense dude he doesn't
take any nonsense
although he yeah he can't be nonsensical
sometimes though he's not watching this
he doesn't he's he doesn't watch this
stuff whoa whoa almost a guy's ease we
have dropped down to almost 36 degrees
that's support in front of you
yeah that's nine degrees Fahrenheit
cooler okay for those Americans almost
nine degrees we're gonna take it down a
notch now this here is a seat on this is
one of the biggest department stores I
don't know maybe in the world it's so
big I should have the the wide-angle
lens on the other side this side and it
is luxurious Peter actually wanted to go
inside and hang out here to cool off but
due to not having permission to film
inside a department store we're just
gonna stay outside here take y'all on a
tour there's a there's a department any
seat on department store here Oh
his department stores have department
and this one this one in particular is
very popular with tourists because they
have some really amazing Jeff made in
Japan goods someday that you have to get
on a waiting list like this moment
frying-pan takes two years to get
delivery of it Wow
so this is the shinjuku-sanchome a
station i gotta avoid this tunnel of
signal death because then this will make
the stream die but you can see the
tuition tjuku line vitoca food food to
cook I never ride that one foot the
coast ocean line and the modernity line
stop here okay I want to show this
everybody really quickly that are
watching the city of Shinjuku
you know the shadow it's free Wi-Fi and
it's Godzilla approved the Wi-Fi
password is Shinjuku free Wi-Fi pretty
original did you ever use it
not on the street I don't use it it's
not as I I have an almost unlimited
bandwidth although it's not unlimited
it's quite expensive but I have so much
bandwidth that it's faster just to use
the 4G I don't use so and I think it's
more secure yeah but if you're a tourist
and you don't have cell phone it's a
pretty good like fix what do you need
the Google map and find out where you're
going there's another Starbucks over
here there's one of those new taxi cabs
this is mom what's the door closed
automatically oh wait the ladies get my
Oh gateway yeah there's another
Starbucks up here this is bui bui
that's not wait not now we call that I
look he closes the duck Nicolas is the
door or wall he's long used Rhett no
it's not still it was it I don't want to
point out you know a coffee chain with
the green logo from a character from the
book Moby Dick or a computer company
with an apple with a big bite out of it
don't show that either now I'm not gonna
show this alright here we go this is one
of the most historic department stores
in the in the country don't look at me
look at this this is easy time its
massive its historical its it goes it's
it can be also from price ranges from
the very cheap to super expensive that
none of us can afford and the history
goes back to the year 1886 which is
pretty much the Meiji Restoration it's
about 18 years after the Meiji
Restoration where Japan's opened up the
government so that's pretty fast opened
up a department store that's been in
here in this location so that's the
original
this is Shinjuku three Sancho Mae
no Julian no Ichi that's the address so
the iron warden here
you know
really beautiful apartment building it's
a beautiful building it's a beautiful
building
hey guys thanks for the super chats I
appreciate it link cats we saw another
one back there it's all the big Buster
survived and I Cassie go buy some yummy
ice cream whoa
90 degrees in Ohio you know what I wish
that we had some graters I when I went
to school at Ohio State I eat graders
all the time best ice cream in the US
that's fennan dairy is pretty close
second I'd turn us around here what's
going on Peter you're like ice cold
right I don't I think the signal is
gonna die if I walk into this vestibule
of death okay let's meet let's try it oh
you saw that right when I ride down the
streets in the summer time on my scooter
I feel it's literally the street
have you ever have you ever come to the
department store at ten o'clock when
they open at 10:30 sorry they open at
10:30 and the staff will make a line
when they open the doors and they bow to
every customer coming and showing great
respect I know that Mitsukoshi does this
I mean I'm pretty sure that they do it
here too and they do this for a couple
of minutes until the crowd goes and then
BOOM they ask you about yeah it's a
pretty amazing experience and if you
ever want to see Japan's that the staff
will make a line and while you walk
through the line they bow to you and
it's one of the big attractions and I
don't think a lot of tourists know about
but maybe maybe they do maybe they don't
I don't know service there's Catherine
Catherine is on summer break for a
couple more weeks
Catherine schoolteacher Catherine that's
right Montreal Hey
hey guys greetings everybody all right
Esteban's in the house man John I would
love to visit next year you inspired me
to learn the language and I love the
production quality of videos thank you
production video of live streams not so
much the other channel is pretty darn
good because I sweat sweat it out on
that one new video coming real soon to
capsule hotels oh nice yeah all male
capsule hotels that means he can come
but half of you can have some time but
there's a reason for it just like they
have all female capsule hotels
there's the reason all right by a large
cherry Slurpee why would you say large
cherry Slurpee we don't have Slurpees in
Japan we have frappuccinos though so
it's a coffee off but it's so cool here
oh wait dude they they did open up a
store of that big Apple company across
the street I didn't know that I'm not
giving any free publicity they've been
getting pounded recently but I didn't
know they opened up just a third Apple
store at Tokyo I believe one is in
Shibuya which I think they closed the
other one is a multi Sandow and the
others in Ginza it's hard to say
Chucky's he's really soaking it up he's
really soaking this up temperature keep
keeping it keeping it keep it in there
you want to walk inside and come out
yeah 30 seconds okay for for science
capsule host sequel estaban it's sort of
like a capsule hotel sequel but instead
of going to alright well Peters in there
I'm gonna tell you a little bit about
capsule hotels you don't have to look at
my face you much better look at the city
of Shinjuku so the capsule hotel that I
went to is something that's a throwback
from 40 years ago it's it's one of these
capsule hotels that like our fathers
went to because they worked like 70 or
80 or 90 hour weeks so they would just
crash for three hours at a place like
this rather than go home which is
usually a long commute in the 1980s
people would commute like two three
hours and then it'd have to commute two
hours back it didn't make sense to go
home so that they would crash at a
capsule hotel so what I did was I went
to one of these places that's a
throwback because every single capsule
hotel video that you see on YouTube now
is one of these themed capsule hotels
open pretty much just for tourists like
first cabin and they're really good I'm
not don't get don't get the wrong
impression I'm not negative on them it's
just that these are these were set up to
make a more comfortable hotel like
experience not a place that you crash
they're not set up for businessmen
they're set up for tourists here on
vacation or people on holiday who want
this which is genius because these are
people that want to live in a small
compartment and they'll pay and be happy
because it's larger than a capsule but
smaller than a room so they're making
out like a bandit and the new trend caps
hotels can raise the prices and they're
doing quite well based on the capsule
philosophy so I went to an original
capsule one that's been open for 40
years and I checked it out and I got the
story of why it's men's only and where
this culture used to be and where maybe
it's going in the future
so it's a very journalistic piece
I hope you enjoy it it's coming out and
so is Peter all right give us the
rundown 33 33 Wow
well from 42:33 that's pretty impressive
so that's about 12 13 degrees Fahrenheit
drop on a thermometer that takes on a
thermometer that takes 12 to 13 minutes
to draw ha ha but but over the course of
the last 20 23 minutes I think we should
what other ways are there Peter to cool
down in the city of Tokyo all right
we've got ice cream I made an entire
episode linked down eating ice cream
yeah 6 million views to sing what I
think I can sort of say that because
it's true well everybody loves Arby's we
don't have that but yeah cold drinks
yeah eating spicy food is what we do in
India at least what my mom taught me
even icy foods down and it helps flee it
down because it's you sweat if you're
hot internally and you cool down
externally it does cool you down and
spicy foods that heats me up but yeah
there's other ways about this oh do you
carry that with you I did today nope no
print on it's very masculine there's no
flowers or geisha it's nice it's pretty
nice it's called us sensu in Japanese
since a very good censor yeah
you have good sense if that the joke
doesn't work for Japanese though yeah
alright it doesn't look very stylish so
this goes with your kit you cops might
like the pattern tumble right the tumble
the dragonfly's nice Japanese lady
how dare she speak to hear the song all
right so this livestream is a little bit
special I was gonna go for about 30
minutes and then I'm gonna hand it off
to Peter who's gonna start live
streaming right now okay get it out and
I'm gonna say my goodbyes I put a link
in the description to the other
livestream so you can pick this up on
Peter's channel to cool down I try to
crank up the air conditioning but I'm
telling you right now it doesn't really
make much of an impact inside of your
house and it gives you also very dry I
like to go to pools during the day
there's a lot of community pools that
you can go to for a couple hundred yen
and then there's Summerland out in tens
of boons of Tokyo with a wave pool it's
cooler but there's about 5,000 people in
the pool and you can't see any water
which makes you question this Santa and
say if it's Sanitarium favorite candy
bars
I mean after they've been in the freezer
right because I like to put my candy
bars in the freezer popsicles work yeah
there's lots of options here what are
you laughing for a giggle master what's
in the pool Oh Oh Baby Ruth in the pool
notice me since it for Han you've been
noticed noticed what I supposed to do
that dude okay it's pretty much the best
way to stay cool it's just sweat and for
all of you who see me in my past videos
I sweat a lot because it's really like
interesting patterns on is sure
that's right deliberately wear the dark
shirts for the show no you know how they
show up they show up and up in a sweat
in a salt pattern right after a few
hours the salt from the sweat starts to
show up on the Wonder and it was like
the face of Jesus oh no no don't get
don't go there but you can what do you
get interpret lots of things from the
sweat patterns now Peter who who's got
his head away from his his phone like a
55 year old man tapping it like now he's
getting away so I can't tease him but
he's tapping it like he knows what he's
doing he does oh did you start already
no there's not so you could actually see
us live streaming and now if you go to
his channel you'll see channel 2 yeah we
can do that this is then this is the
2018 it's pretty cool all right so you
this is an iPhone X this is an iPhone 7
plus do you see a difference I can see a
big difference so I'm gonna do the last
20 seconds looking at you looking at you
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